The Corder house is going to DefCon 4.
Five 9th grade girls are spending the night tonight. I worked all day in the yard today and while I was getting up leaves I wondered what I would have done as a 9th grade boy if I knew these girls were in the house! OK, this is not good.
I'd be calling the house and checking out things....but kids don't call today they text. OK, I will just go check my daughter's phone......Damn, she has got it locked and pass word protected. Since 9th grade boys don't drive, they will probably be walking past our house like vultures circling their prey. I wish my dog's shock collar would work on them!!
I have instructed the house to go to DefCon 4 and we are all on high alert.
Motion Dector Lights - Check
Dogs Un Fed and Hungry - Check
High Powered Flash Lights - Check
Pellet Gun Loaded and Pumped - Check (I will just sting 'em)
I have changed into all dark clothes and have painted my face so I can be mobile outside without being noticed.
If you need me I will be in the Situation Room monitoring the situation.
November 22, 2008
November 16, 2008
Futility
I am embarrassed to say that my favorite NFL football team is the Detroit Lions. I watched them today lose to the Panthers. They are now 0 – 10 and on course to be the first team to lose every game in a single season.
Being a Lions fan draws me to a line in one of my favorite all time movies, Plains, Trains and Automobiles. Recently I keep relating to this quote in the movie by the character played by Steve Martin. He and John Candy have been stuck in this hotel together and of course John Candy is driving Steve Martin crazy.
“I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. They'd say, "How can you stand it?" I'd say, "'Cause I've been with Del Griffith. I can take ANYTHING." You know what they'd say? They'd say, "I know what you mean, the shower curtain ring guy. Woah."
So, don’t complain about your sports team around me because I will just say, “I am a Detroit Lions fan.” And then you will say, “Oh, I know what you mean. The Detroit Lions Whoa.”
They play on Thanksgiving day against the undefeated Tennessee Titans. Do I smell an upset? No, that is just my 11 year old son's feet!
Being a Lions fan draws me to a line in one of my favorite all time movies, Plains, Trains and Automobiles. Recently I keep relating to this quote in the movie by the character played by Steve Martin. He and John Candy have been stuck in this hotel together and of course John Candy is driving Steve Martin crazy.
“I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. They'd say, "How can you stand it?" I'd say, "'Cause I've been with Del Griffith. I can take ANYTHING." You know what they'd say? They'd say, "I know what you mean, the shower curtain ring guy. Woah."
So, don’t complain about your sports team around me because I will just say, “I am a Detroit Lions fan.” And then you will say, “Oh, I know what you mean. The Detroit Lions Whoa.”
They play on Thanksgiving day against the undefeated Tennessee Titans. Do I smell an upset? No, that is just my 11 year old son's feet!
November 6, 2008
Keep an Eye on the Ditch
One morning, as I was about to walk into our Senior Staff meeting, I met a man asking if the YMCA "Prayer Partners" were meeting. You see "Prayer Partners" would meet once a week and it is a time when we do a devotion and list prayer requests for the week. Staff mostly attend it, but occasionally a member will stop by to make a specific prayer request. Unfortunately, this particular morning, I had scheduled a meeting at the same time as "Prayer Partners."
It didn't look like anyone was going to show up for the devotional. I diplomatically told him to come back next week and that I would make sure people showed up...."next week." I am now embarrassed to say, that I told him that I had a meeting to go into and we would not be having the prayer time today. At that point he looked at me and said, "Sir, I do not have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me. And I saw where you had this "Prayer Partners" and I thought the Y could help me!"
I felt two inches tall. How could I have made such a statement? I could feel God slapping me in the back of the head like my father used to do and saying, “Now what did you say?" I shook the man's hand and I invited him to the meeting and introduced him to our Senior Staff team, and for the next twenty minutes we heard his story.
He shared a story of a confused man searching for peace. He wanted us to teach him how to pray. He wanted us to pray for him. "You see", he said, "I believe in God, but I guess the more people praying for me, the better off I am." You could feel our Y staff embrace him with nods and smiles of encouragement. He had a slight mental disability he alluded to, but his real demon is his battle with alcohol. He wanted us to pray for his DUI trial next week. He was scared to lose his license. He rambled on and on about his car, and he threw out a few bible verses he remembered. But you could tell he was lonely and scared.
As he talked I kept kicking my self and seeing his tear filled eyes looking at me. “Sir, I don't have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me." At the very time when I could have been the "Good Samaritan", I became the priest and the Levite walking to the other side of the road. "Sir, I don't have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me." WOW! You should have seen his eyes!!!!
I have often thought about how many times I may have missed an opportunity. How many times have I told our staff and volunteers that the "YMCA is the church for many people and we have an obligation to lead them closer to Christ," and in that opportunity I came within a look into this man's eyes from letting him lie in the ditch.
Before our meeting started, we prayed for him. I hope tonight before you go to sleep you will pray for people like him and also ask God to open your eyes to the opportunities to help people out of their ditch!
It didn't look like anyone was going to show up for the devotional. I diplomatically told him to come back next week and that I would make sure people showed up...."next week." I am now embarrassed to say, that I told him that I had a meeting to go into and we would not be having the prayer time today. At that point he looked at me and said, "Sir, I do not have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me. And I saw where you had this "Prayer Partners" and I thought the Y could help me!"
I felt two inches tall. How could I have made such a statement? I could feel God slapping me in the back of the head like my father used to do and saying, “Now what did you say?" I shook the man's hand and I invited him to the meeting and introduced him to our Senior Staff team, and for the next twenty minutes we heard his story.
He shared a story of a confused man searching for peace. He wanted us to teach him how to pray. He wanted us to pray for him. "You see", he said, "I believe in God, but I guess the more people praying for me, the better off I am." You could feel our Y staff embrace him with nods and smiles of encouragement. He had a slight mental disability he alluded to, but his real demon is his battle with alcohol. He wanted us to pray for his DUI trial next week. He was scared to lose his license. He rambled on and on about his car, and he threw out a few bible verses he remembered. But you could tell he was lonely and scared.
As he talked I kept kicking my self and seeing his tear filled eyes looking at me. “Sir, I don't have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me." At the very time when I could have been the "Good Samaritan", I became the priest and the Levite walking to the other side of the road. "Sir, I don't have a church, but I need somebody to pray for me." WOW! You should have seen his eyes!!!!
I have often thought about how many times I may have missed an opportunity. How many times have I told our staff and volunteers that the "YMCA is the church for many people and we have an obligation to lead them closer to Christ," and in that opportunity I came within a look into this man's eyes from letting him lie in the ditch.
Before our meeting started, we prayed for him. I hope tonight before you go to sleep you will pray for people like him and also ask God to open your eyes to the opportunities to help people out of their ditch!
November 3, 2008
One More Day
The best thing that can happen tomorrow is that it will be over. It seems that the big winners in this election season are the printers, marketing people, TV stations, ad agencies, newspapers and the people that sell canned phone calls.
I am starting to get tired of the calls at home, the slanderous slick ads in the mail, and the partisan TV pundits. I am not getting tired of the SNL impersonations. Tina Fey gets better looking each week!!!
I am going to get up early and vote tomorrow. And I will watch the news tomorrow night trying to monitor who will be our new President, Governor, Lt Governor and County Commissioners. But no matter who wins or who loses, I will get up Wednesday morning and sit in the dentist chair.
That may be the only thing worse than the last month of this election season!
Everybody rinse and spit. And God Bless America!
I am starting to get tired of the calls at home, the slanderous slick ads in the mail, and the partisan TV pundits. I am not getting tired of the SNL impersonations. Tina Fey gets better looking each week!!!
I am going to get up early and vote tomorrow. And I will watch the news tomorrow night trying to monitor who will be our new President, Governor, Lt Governor and County Commissioners. But no matter who wins or who loses, I will get up Wednesday morning and sit in the dentist chair.
That may be the only thing worse than the last month of this election season!
Everybody rinse and spit. And God Bless America!
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